Impressions of a Turner Landscape – Sunrise: Light, Memory, and Turner’s Legacy
I am delighted to introduce a brand-new addition to my most successful series, the Impressions of a Turner Landscape Collection. Unlike earlier works in the series, which I numbered, this new piece carries a more descriptive title: Sunrise.
The collection itself is created mostly around 8.30 in the morning, when the sun acts like a film light, sharpening its focus on the water’s surface and revealing reflections that dissolve into abstraction. Sunrise is my interpretation of what nature offers at that moment — an impression shaped by light and imagination — evoking the timeless beauty of dawn.
J.M.W. Turner, whose work inspired the title of this collection, often allowed light and atmosphere to dissolve material reality into something more elemental. In his late seascapes, the horizon vanishes into pure colour, pure feeling. I like to think he might have recognised in these water reflections a similar impulse: to see not just what is before the eye, but what lingers in the imagination after the light has passed.
For me, Impressions of a Turner Landscape – Sunrise is less about recording a single instant than about capturing the way nature and imagination work together to create a landscape that is at once real and entirely invented. Each time I return to it, I feel both the sharpness of that morning light and the calm clarity of a dawn remembered.
